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Andrew Westby, NRI's Director of Research and Professor of Food Technology, has been elected President of the International Society for Tropical Root Crops (ISTRC) at its triennial Symposium in Arusha, Tanzania, from 9 to 14 November 2003. The...
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The post-harvest sector has the potential to contribute much more than it does to the livelihoods of poor people, but development efforts in the past have always been more focused on agricultural production. A new initiative promises to change...
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NRI land use planner Dr Robert Ridgway is visiting Kazakhstan from 18 September to 2 October to commence the implementation phase of the DFID-funded project "Land Use Plan for the Semipalatinsk Test Site." Robert is project manager and land use...
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The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Greenwich, Prof. Rick Trainor, has announced that Dr Guy Poulter is now confirmed as NRI Director. Formerly Director of Operations at NRI, Guy was appointed as its Acting Director at the start of 2003. He...
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The famed explorer Sir Wilfred Thesiger died on 24 August 2003 in hospital at the age of 93. In a lifetime of travelling and exploration in the Middle East and Africa, often willingly enduring hardship and eschewing modern methods of transport, Sir...
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At the closing ceremony of the World Technology Summit 24-25 June 2003, it was announced that one of the five finalists in the Environment (Individual) section of the World Technology Awards 2003 was one of NRI's consultant researchers, Dr Glyn...
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A Ruminant Feed Expert is required to review the livestock farming systems in minority areas, propose methods of improving production through nutrition and provide training for dairy and beef farmers in the development of their feeding systems as...
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It has been announced by the Royal Entomological Society that one of NRI's entomologists Dr Stephen Torr and his co-authors from Canada and Zimbabwe have won an award for the best paper published in the Society's journal Medical and Veterinary...
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NRI, in collaboration with the Institut de Recherches Médicinal et d'Etudes des Plantes Médicinales (IMPM/MINREST) in Cameroon and the International Foundation for Science (IFS), is organizing the FoodAfrica initiative, which is sponsored by the...
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An NRI report "Facing the Challenge: NGO Experiences of Mitigating the Impacts of HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa" has been published on-line. The report, edited by NRI Associate Joanna White, presents nine case studies of NGO initiatives in the...
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